Indigo Arts is honored to present a selection of Haitian sculpture from the collection of the late American multi-media artist and filmmaker, Rudi Stern.  

Haitian master steel-drum sculptor Gabriel Bien-Aimé attended the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe this July.  After a year and a half of the Covid pandemic, which led to the cancellation of the 2020 Folk Art Market, it was very much in doubt whether Bien-Aimé or any of other Haitian artists admitted would be able to attend.  It seemed even more unlikely when the president of Haiti was assasinated the week before the market's opening and the country's airports were shut down.

Gurupada Chitrakar, one of the finest West Bengal scroll painters of his generation passed away on June 29, 2021,  as the delta variant of the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged India.  Gurupada was a fine artist and transmitter of his patachitra tradition, who I was privileged to meet in Santa Fe in 2006 and 2011.  Rest In Peace.

In May of 2021 Gurupada was featured in an Indian newspaper article about the desperate plight of his fellow patachitra artists during the pandemic:  

News of an artist featured in our Five Cuban Outsiders show, 

This month I am not featuring any art that is for sale at Indigo Arts or noting museum and gallery shows of interest to me.  

Nearly three months of lockdown to limit the spread of COVID-19 has been followed by the overwhelming response to the brutal murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis.